AI RESEARCH
Matching Meaning at Scale: Evaluating Semantic Search for 18th-Century Intellectual History through the Case of Locke
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.09236v1 Announce Type: cross While digitized corpora have transformed the study of intellectual transmission, current methods rely heavily on lexical text reuse detection, capturing verbatim quotations but fundamentally missing paraphrases and complex implicit engagement. This paper evaluates semantic search in 18th-century intellectual history through the reception of John Locke's foundational work.